@#7 ... This is a conversation Republicans can't have. ...

I agree.

In the past they seemed to have shied away from it.

But, this is now.

Let's see how many chime in.

Or will we see the usual [crickets]?

Who knows ...

@#4 ... Releasing the files would give people facts and data, and start putting the issue in the past or commencing prosecutions for some and deserved ostracism and loss of status for others. ...

That's where my view is.

Stated differently, my main desire regarding the Epstein files and their release is the serving of Justice for those who have abused the Epstein victims.

I do not care one iota if those abusers are Democratics or Republicans.

For me, it is about the serving of Justice.

That is what the Epstein victims have been seeking.

Justice.

The above leads me to ask, who is Pres Trump trying to protect by slow-walking the full release [minus the victim names] of the Epstein files?

And why?

... "I'll get impeached." ...

So, Pres Trump is admitting that he knows he might be committing impeachable actions?

Interesting, to say the least.

... that money will be controlled by me ...

OK, so, after showing his ineptitude of running the economy of the Country that has elected him President, he now wants to take on the control of the economy of another country?

@#4 ... "These are the iron laws of the world."

This world died a century ago. ...

... and they died because they led the us into two world wars.

@#23 ... Cuba is going to fall. They can't afford to buy oil on the international market, and trump will stop Venezuela from giving it to them anymore. So he can invade. ...

That pretty much my current view of the situation.

Sec Rubio has been whispering in Pres trump's ear about saving Cuba, his parents' home country.

Wait, what?

Sec Rubio was born in the US of Cuban immigrants. And he has US Citizenship?

Yet Pres Trump wants to eliminate the "if you are born here" citizenship?

Have there been discussions in the Oval Office on that topic?

So, Deputy CoS Stephen Miller is saying that the United States can do anything it wants to anyone or any Country because the US military is the most powerful on the planet?

@#1

So... Might, and only Might, makes Right?

More from the analysis ...

... "We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else," deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper. "But we live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power," Miller said.

"These are the iron laws of the world."

Any US allies still in denial after the first wild year of Trump's second term should listen to something else Miller said. "We're a superpower.

And under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower."

His comments came in the context of questions about Trump's claims to be running Venezuela following the daring US special forces raid that snatched President Nicols Maduro and sent him to a Monday court hearing in New York. ...

@#12 ... then follow the drugs.....hopefully little speed boats that disintegrate..... ...

Please explain how those "little speed boats" would be able to travel the many miles to reach US shores?

And while your current alias is at it, also, please explain why you think those "little speed boats" are heading to the US.

thx.

@#4 ... Why not? It's not like anyone is going to stop him. ...

First, he has to invoke the Insurrection Act.

It looks like he has been trying to provoke cities to give him a reason to invoke that Act.

But, so far, it looks like the cities have not responded in the manner he had hoped.

What might his next tactics be to the end of invoking the Insurrection Act?

Or might he just invoke it just before the election, regardless of the legality of doing so.

Knowing that legal challenges will take time, but the elections would have been cancelled?

@#8 ... That meeting on Oct. 2 was critical for Mr. Rubio in pushing the administration to reach his yearslong goal of ousting Mr. Maduro ...

Unlike the more transactional-oriented Pres Trump, Sec Rubio seems to think more for the longer term.

So, what might be his goal here?

Regime-change in his parents' native Cuba?

It seems Sec Rubio has been having discussions about the Venezuela invasion for a while ...

... Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a crowd in October that the "counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building" was over" ...

So, apparently she was out of the loop?

If so, why?

@#6

Back in the day that I referred to in #5, VPNs were scarce, if existent at all, for most Internet users.

So it was easy to see the same IP address posting under multiple aliases.

Ahhh... simpler times.

I do not envy RCade here.

But I do appreciate his work to provide this most august site.

@#3

So, more to come?

More from the article ...

... Wyoming is a solid republican state that hasn't voted for a Democrat in a presidential election for more than 60 years.

It gave President Donald Trump nearly 72 percent of its vote in the 2024 presidential race against then-Vice President Kamala Harris. ...

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, in a statement: "This ruling is profoundly unfortunate and sadly only serves to prolong the ultimate and proper resolution of this issue. This ruling may settle, for now, a legal question, but it does not settle the moral one, nor does it reflect where many Wyoming citizens stand, including myself. It is time for this issue to go before the people for a vote, and I believe it should go before them this fall. ...

@#3 ... he's learned so much from them.

Mainly that repeated lies are as good as the truth to blind cultists. ...

Yup.

So...

Pres Trump seems to have gone into a project (the Trump phone) with little or no understanding of the difficulties in the planning required to bring the project to completion?

What does that say about the planning of his other endeavors, say, Venezuela?

Another view ..

Good luck to them.

Is Sec Kennedy just another example of this?